On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 05:20:53AM -0000, Michael van Elst wrote: > VGA has only 8 colors and an intensity attribute. You cannot select > the "light" ANSI colors. The VGA driver will fail attempts to > allocate such color attributes, so you get white on black instead. ... > When DRM takes over, such hardware limitations no longer apply. > The framebuffer code can handle more colors.
you mean you don't get a graphic console right away on that machine? Is this BIOS related? Reinoud